Dining out with friends can foster healthy relationships that might otherwise be limited to impersonal group texts or overly personal bathtime visits. Get a bite in person with a person with today's Groupon: for $40, you get $80 worth of haute cuisine and drinks at Luke's Gastronomy.

Hailed as "one of Canada's most intriguing, inventive and buzzed-about chefs" by the Financial Times, young gustatory guru Luke Hayes-Alexander started Luke's Gastronomy when he was 15 years old. Relying almost exclusively on local ingredients, Hayes-Alexander designs a menu of artistically presented dishes that blend classic, modern, and neo-futurist techniques, ideally suited as a gift for your local gastronome. Starters set appetites aflame, such as the 15th-century-style tête du cochon comprised of stuffed pork medallions accompanied by mushroom ketchup and quail egg ($10). Between courses, diners may cleanse their palates with a refresher of rabbit, pumpkin, black sesame, and ginger ($15) while deliberating how to shrink the restaurant into a gift-box-friendly size for the holidays. Come the main course, patrons feast upon delicacies such as the cosmic duck, a pairing of confit leg and pulled breast meat with caramelized onion, tomato, and marshmallow ($36). Quaffs include wines ranging from dry riesling to cabernet franc ($8/glass), vinted from free-range grapes grown at the restaurant's own vineyards.